rodo vs rosto, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“rodo” is a verb and “rosto” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,079
“rodo” frequency rank: #1,199
“rosto” frequency rank: 38278
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	rodo	rosto
Definition	roer	face, cara

Letter map: rodo vs rosto

Shared letters muted; letters that set rodo and rosto apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

rodo

5 ch

rosto

Grammar separator: rodo vs rosto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rodo is averb and rostoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38278, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rodo is recorded at frequency rank #37,079, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈroː.doː/. rosto is at rank #1,199, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 38278, this pair ranks #28,203 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rodo vs rosto

Shared letters: or. Private to "rodo": d. Private to "rosto": st.

"rodo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "rosto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

rodo ← ordo · rdoo · roddo · rood · rrodo
rosto ← orsto · rosot · rossto · rostto · rotso · rrosto · rsoto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rodo" for "rosto" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rodo" is a verb and "rosto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "rodo" or "rosto"?

"rosto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,199 in our Portuguese list, against #37,079 for "rodo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "rodo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "rosto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #28,203 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"rodo" and "rosto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "robe vs rodo". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #28,203 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.